Word: impertinente
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Bunker is winding up his Viet Nam assignment, and his best hopes, and those of the Administration he represents, have been dashed by Nguyen Van Thieu. Bunker will leave South Viet Nam with an even less viable government than it had when he arrived. That cannot but have weighed heavily...
When Common Cause went to work on the seniority system, its St. Louis members wired Representative Richard Ichord (D.Mo.), asking him to state his position. Ichord, in response, wrote Gardner that the request was "very impertinent and insolent questioning." Gardner replied, "The desire of a citizen to know where his...
It was real. It was shocking. It was devastating. From it, I have observed that violent confrontation results only in impertinent deaths and unwarranted destruction. I feel that this is much too high a price to pay for any nebulous cause.
Millions of Americans become incensed decennially at the nosiness of their Government. They forget that the U.S. census is not nearly as outrageously curious as it once was. In 1890, for example, the federal inquisitors asked no fewer than 470 questions. Among the most impertinent: "If there are any idiots...
Whether the Nixon plan will really work depends on two elements. The first is whether Hanoi resumes all-out offensive tactics, which could set back pacification, increase U.S. casualties and force Nixon to slow the withdrawals. The second is whether the South Vietnamese prove capable of handling the Communists and...